well, we were planning to TTC by the end of this year, and fingers crossed we have our first child before the end of 2010! BUT, does anyone think this seems rather abrupt bringing it in straight like that? For me it would make more sense to stagger it, for instance bringing in 4 weeks paid every six months etc etc....
I'm just imagining this sudden massive increase in pregnancies in march/april 2010 and then a swamping of the public hospitals for january 2011! It's going to be ridiculously busy at that time....i for one don't want to be in a busy hospital giving birth at this time...18 weeks pay or not.
I guess because i work for a public hospital i am thinking about what a huge workload this is going to cause!